Home Health Care News September 23, 2024
Patients are receiving less access to Medicare-certified home health care in recent years, according to a new data analysis.
The data analysis – which comes from the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (PQHH) and CareJourney by Arcadia – examines Medicare home health fee-for-service claims from 2022 through 2023, in order to determine access to care, and how it has been impacted by payment rate cuts.
An analysis of 2022 data found that almost 35% of patients who leave the hospital, and receive a home health discharge, don’t access this care within a seven-day period.
Additionally, the findings show that patients who didn’t receive home health care had a death rate that was 41% higher than patients who accessed this care...
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